I’m guessing this guy’s a plumber. Not classically beautiful, I grant you. — praxis

Luminous with beauty.

Falkirk Wheel (Scotland).

As I previously shared in the 'currently reading' thread, I am reading Mircea Cărtărescu. He is from Romania, and he was born and raised in 1960s Bucharest. The two parts of his novel (Blinding) are a mix of dreams, memories, surrealism and nostalgia in the neighbourhood of his childhood. It also appears a red windmill that seemed to be very big, and the size of this construction impressed Mircea a lot and shows up in his dreams (and nightmares).

I tried to search on Google for the locations, and the results were fascinating.

"Stefan cel Mare" is the neighbourhood of Mircea. A brutalist Soviet-like building, but I like it. I feel positive vibrations, and the neighbourhood seemed to be vivid and full of joy:


It is very hard to find the red windmill on Google. Mircea says that it is located in 'Dambovita'.
Yet I guess it looked like this but red coloured:

Power back on, then?

Sí.

I am ready to talk about 'Divine Simplicity' with you again.

:wink:

The Banffy Castle—the main location where the Transylvanian trilogy is taking part. I am really enjoying these volumes written by Miklos Banffy.

In that period of time, early 20th century, the territory where the castle is located belonged to Hungary, and it was called Kolozsvár. But now belongs to Romanian territory, and it is called Cluj-Napoca.

Whenever I see an old pile like that all I can think of is how hard it would be to heat the bloody place! Probably my latent Calvinism.

:rofl:

Well, at least when Miklos Banffy was alive, it was sufficient to chop pieces of wood from the closest forest. But now I can't imagine how expensive the gas or power bill could be! Crazy!